Perforce offers free licenses for Open Source projects, if that applies to you. They will also give you a demo license so you can try it out for a while (90 days?) while you make up your mind.
Having just received a PhD from Columbia in NYC, I can tell everyone that your dissertation (for MS or PhD) is owned only by you. By 'dissertation', I mean the writeup of your research results. Copyright is held by you.
I was paid off a DARPA as well as NSF and IBM grants. The university tried to get students on grant money to sign invention assignment agreements; I refused. Nonetheless, I believe the university does have an entitlement to some portion of the research I did. These kinds of laws vary state-by-state. For instance, in California, it is illegal for companies to claim ownership on work you do on your own time using your own equipment.
They're doing it so that Amazon will begin carrying Apple hardware in its online stores. Apple got the deal for a song in return for "blessing" Amazon as a place to buy apple products.
BSCW is a web-based collaboration tool written in python. It's free for educational/non-commercial use, and very inexpensive for companies. My startup has been using BSCW successfully for exactly what you want, including posting word docs and other things, change notifications, versioning of documents, etc.
As far as I'm concerned, laptops will _really_ start to outnumber desktops when they come with decent 3d accelerators. Yes, I mean something better than an ATI Rage Pro.
If I could get one of those Dell Inspirons or an IBM Thinkpad 770 with the rough equivalent of a RIVA TNT2 in it, I'd be there in 1/4 uSec.
As the current owner of a visual workstation, I'd like to point out the memory in them is not a 'goofball' type, it's standard ECC Buffered SDRAM. You can buy it from thechipmerchant.com and tons of web places (as we have).
Yes, Buffered ECC SDRAM is not what goes in most no-name PCs (std PC100 SDRAM is unbuffered), but it is what all DELL workstation-class machines, all IBM intellistations, etc. use.
DirecTV has been doing this since they started. You have to connect a phone line to the box in order to be able to buy pay-per-view movies without calling them. The box then calls them around 2am (800 number) and tells them you bought the movie. It also sends them your viewing info for the last several days.
The solution, of course, is to disconnect your box from the phone line.
Except that if you do that, they call you all the time to ask if your box is broken.
Sendmail, BIND, Apache, INN, are probably some of the MOST used software on the internet. The versions bundled with most "commercial" *nixes are derived from the OSS versions, and most installations immediately replace vendor-supplied version with the latest OSS editions.
Nope, that's not mainstream. Clearly, we hit the brick wall and just kept going.
Things announced at Demo99 tend to be close to reality, i.e. not marketing BS. If this works, Redhat would be dumb not to buy into this company with some of their venture $$, just to be able to bundle it with their linux distro.
Buried in the article it says it can run NT or Unix. Ok, so maybe they've got some sort of intel or alpha cpu buried in there for controlling all the fancy reconfigurable processes.
But they expect us to believe they've designed radically new hardware as well as a brand new fancy programming environment which runs on multiple platforms in the short life of their startup, and it was all done by 1 guy?
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Perforce offers free licenses for Open Source projects, if that applies to you. They will also give you a demo license so you can try it out for a while (90 days?) while you make up your mind.
Having just received a PhD from Columbia in NYC, I can tell everyone that your dissertation (for MS or PhD) is owned only by you. By 'dissertation', I mean the writeup of your research results. Copyright is held by you.
I was paid off a DARPA as well as NSF and IBM grants. The university tried to get students on grant money to sign invention assignment agreements; I refused. Nonetheless, I believe the university does have an entitlement to some portion of the research I did. These kinds of laws vary state-by-state. For instance, in California, it is illegal for companies to claim ownership on work you do on your own time using your own equipment.
They're doing it so that Amazon will begin carrying Apple hardware in its online stores. Apple got the deal for a song in return for "blessing" Amazon as a place to buy apple products.
See http://bscw.gmd.de/
It's pretty clear you've never spoken to a VC. They don't sign NDAs. Ever.
If I could get one of those Dell Inspirons or an IBM Thinkpad 770 with the rough equivalent of a RIVA TNT2 in it, I'd be there in 1/4 uSec.
Dude, get to the Gym. Fast.
As the current owner of a visual workstation, I'd like to point out the memory in them is not a 'goofball' type, it's standard ECC Buffered SDRAM. You can buy it from thechipmerchant.com and tons of web places (as we have).
Yes, Buffered ECC SDRAM is not what goes in most no-name PCs (std PC100 SDRAM is unbuffered), but it is what all DELL workstation-class machines, all IBM intellistations, etc. use.
DirecTV has been doing this since they started. You have to connect a phone line to the box in order to be able to buy pay-per-view movies without calling them. The box then calls them around 2am (800 number) and tells them you bought the movie. It also sends them your viewing info for the last several days.
The solution, of course, is to disconnect your box from the phone line.
Except that if you do that, they call you all the time to ask if your box is broken.
Well, time to get DirecTV Rob. If I can get a signal here in manhattan, anyone can...
Hmm. Let's see.
Sendmail, BIND, Apache, INN, are probably some of the MOST used software on the internet. The versions bundled with most "commercial" *nixes are derived from the OSS versions, and most installations immediately replace vendor-supplied version with the latest OSS editions.
Nope, that's not mainstream. Clearly, we hit the brick wall and just kept going.
Things announced at Demo99 tend to be close to reality, i.e. not marketing BS. If this works, Redhat would be dumb not to buy into this company with some of their venture $$, just to be able to bundle it with their linux distro.
Buried in the article it says it can run NT or Unix. Ok, so maybe they've got some sort of intel or alpha cpu buried in there for controlling all the fancy reconfigurable processes.
But they expect us to believe they've designed radically new hardware as well as a brand new fancy programming environment which runs on multiple platforms in the short life of their startup, and it was all done by 1 guy?
Ok. Sure.
Think what he could do if started hacking linux.